Papers of Hawfield Farm, 1847-1910.

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Crenshaw, William. Papers of Hawfield Farm, 1847-1910.

Papers of Hawfield Farm, 1847-1910.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32671915

Include ledgers, journals, and daybooks recording farm operations, slaves' activities, wages for the overseer John G. Graves, accounts for laborers, purchases of guano, sales of tobacco, horsebreeding records; creamery production records; a household management record book, ca. 1856, including recipes and medicinal prescriptions; and a rain gauge record, 1880-1917. Also include accounts and receipts relating to the Sulfur mines at Mineral Springs, Va.; freight receipts and accounts with the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad; black and white photographs of mills, mines, railroads, houses, and other sites primarily around Orange County, Va.; and printed ephemera, including invitations, 1890-1892, to the unveilings of monuments to R.E. Lee and A.P. Hill, located in Richmond, Va.

2,000 items.

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